installing bagit-python from the Library of Congress GitHub
Hello, I'm trying to install bagit-python from the LoC Github https://github.com/ LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python I have Windows 10 and I downloaded Python 2.7.12 and the most recent iteration of bag-it. According to the README file I should be able to type in "pip install bagit" to install bagit globally, but instead I get "SyntaxEror: invalid syntax." It's my understanding that pip is automatically part of 2.7.12. There are no instructions as to what to do if this happens. I should be able to get to something called bagit.py, but it's unclear what that means as I can't get any further. If you could let me know what I can do it would be much appreciated. I'm pretty new to this. Best, Ben
Hello Benjamin, Can you pass the full error message please ? Or would the error message be something like :
pip install bagit File "<stdin>", line 1 pip install bagit ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
If so that's because `pip` is not a command that you should run from inside the Python shell but from within the Windows command prompt, before entering a Python REPL. You can see that I'm in the Python repl because it start with a >>>. The windows repl start (if I remember correctly) by C:\Path\To\Somewhere> . We'll not go into detail as of why this is the case that you have to use pip from outside the Python shell. Hope that make some sens. I'm unfortunately not familiar enough with windows to tell you how to access the windows command prompt. Thanks, -- M On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Benjamin Houtman <houtman.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to install bagit-python from the LoC Github https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python I have Windows 10 and I downloaded Python 2.7.12 and the most recent iteration of bag-it. According to the README file I should be able to type in "pip install bagit" to install bagit globally, but instead I get "SyntaxEror: invalid syntax." It's my understanding that pip is automatically part of 2.7.12. There are no instructions as to what to do if this happens. I should be able to get to something called bagit.py, but it's unclear what that means as I can't get any further. If you could let me know what I can do it would be much appreciated. I'm pretty new to this. Best, Ben
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Pip is a command line tool. Are you trying to use it from the interactive Python interpreter instead? 30.10.2016, 18:01, Benjamin Houtman kirjoitti:
Hello, I'm trying to install bagit-python from the LoC Github https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python <https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python> I have Windows 10 and I downloaded Python 2.7.12 and the most recent iteration of bag-it. According to the README file I should be able to type in "pip install bagit" to install bagit globally, but instead I get "SyntaxEror: invalid syntax." It's my understanding that pip is automatically part of 2.7.12. There are no instructions as to what to do if this happens. I should be able to get to something called bagit.py, but it's unclear what that means as I can't get any further. If you could let me know what I can do it would be much appreciated. I'm pretty new to this. Best, Ben
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